The Voice - Match preview (a) v Crawley Town - Sat 5 August 2023 3pm

Haven’t seen him play but based on what I read it seems Oyegoke is far more of an asset going forward from RWB so it seems a shame to lose that playing him at RCB. Especially when we have so many CBs all vying for a spot in the team. But agree, Halliday was solid last season and seems to be a firm favourite with MH so it’ll be interesting to see what we do.

 

Think the team that started against Middlesbrough should be the line up quite an attacking team

 

I feel like Oyegoke will be given the freedom to step out of defence to give an extra man in midfield or creating an overlap on the right, a la Sheff Utd - Or, at least, I feel he'd be suited for the role from the little I've seen

 

Its a pain, but not too disruptive for you. You need to continue into London and transfer to Victoria Station. From there catch the train to Gatwick Airport and change for the Fastrack 20. You can download train timetables from the bus website.

So, I'd add on the extra travel to your ticket into London or Finsbury Park maybe then take the Victoria line from FP to Victoria.

 

Thanks, re booked yesterday. 9.28 from Wakey to Kings Cross, tube to Victoria. 12.29 to Three Bridges arrives 13.07 then Uber. Same route back, 18.02 from Three Bridges back to Wakey for 9.30.

 

Travelling anywhere nowadays is a nightmare, recently went to Liverpool, train from Manchester cancelled both ways
Lots of hanging around, just can't rely on the trains nowadays.

 

Team for this match
Lewis
Gillead
Oyegoke
Clark
Stubbs
Platt
Smallwood
Walker
Pattison
Cook
Smith

 

So we will have five at the back all preseason but then revert to a back four? Lol

 

By far the quickest way to Crawley from Bradford is by car and always will be

 

Not true now that Thameslink (usually) goes right through the middle of London whereas driving takes you round those awful bottlenecks at Egham and Chertsey not to mention the currently dreadful roadworks at the M25/A3 roundabout.

 

You’ll be there in 10 minutes if your travel guesstimates are anything to go by. What was it 1.5 hrs to Walsall via the M62/ M6 in the evening peak?

 

Newsflash……I set off to Walsall at 4pm and was there for 5.45pm. I never said 1.5 hours

 

Where in Bradford? Roughly

 

I agree with that but it also shows how poor the recruitment has been that we now end up with Gillead in the left wing back slot as despite him not excelling in 4 other positions he's now a makeshift one for a 5th.

For me I'd probably abandon the plan until we get a wingback as we know Halliday and Ridehalgh are steady enough and hope the midfield improvements with Smith will be enough for now.

At the very least we'd be solid again and can perhaps build from there.

 

Thanks Stafford, got my tickets for the times in my #84 and all seems ok. Taxi office on Three Bridges forecourt.

 

I notice that Crawley have signed an attacking midfielder , Kamarai Swyer, on loan from West Ham where he has scored 7 goals in 27 for their Under 21s.

 

I wonder if he is as good as Thierry Nevers.

 

probably more chance of scoring a goal than Ash Taylor.
If Cook doesn’t score for us, who will.